Sedimentary

This is a large object containing the “Sedimentations”, conceived in relation to two other “Archivers”: the “Diarytèque” and the “Infinite Painting”. The “Sedimentary” is simultaneously a generator, a trace and a depository. It is a generator, or workshop, because it is there that the “Sedimentations” are painted; it is there on the wall that the painting takes shape. It is a trace because on that back wall the imprints of paintings are gradually recorded, thus becoming a sort of simulacrum of the pictorial action. It is a depository because it is there, in the space constructed behind the wall, that all of the “Sedimentations”, (started in 2000) are stored in my studio. In a certain way it becomes a measuring device, one that measures quantity. The capacity of the container determines the substance that time forms little by little. The “Sedimentary” is in a continual state of transformation, like a warehouse which is always being emptied and refilled. It helps me to find the right measure. It should never be left empty, but at the same time it should never be too full. Like a current in which the substance produced ebbs and flows, following a rhythm; it does not accumulate and it goes. Since 2020 the “Sedimentary” has been raised on a platform-trolley about 40-cm high in order to integrate it into the other parts of the “Gestureplace”.

For more information: Genesis and development of the Sedimentary

Archivers
Structures built to contain the painted material daily produced. All together, they synthesize the whole meaning of my work.

Sedimentations
Each painting starts with a layer of red. I start from the red, not the white page. I ingrain the canvas with the substance I am made of. Then I begin to sediment, one layer on top of the other. The gesture is always the same: spreading fluid substance on a two-dimensional surface until I’ve covered almost all of it, but not completely. The process declares itself: at the top there is a border that recounts the passage of all the colours that have led me to that last layer. Each “Sedimentation” is like the fragment of a painting that develops over time and that is painted infinitely.

Gestureplace
Opere che nel loro insieme costituiscono l’opera “Luogogesto”

Painting
Opere pittoriche a olio o acrilico su diversi supporti, ma prevalentemente su tela